Are we doing enough testing for the coronavirus . Some bay area cities say its hard to get an appointment. We look at just how long it takes to get tested these days. This as the clock continues to ticket for the last county not on the States Coronavirus watch list. What you can still do in San Mateo County for now. We were prepared today for what we believe in. And it was this feeling that somebody had to do it. We couldnt wait another 50 years. Another 100 years. And the bay area remembering d honori the late civil rights leaders, congressman john lewis. But we start with covid testing troubles in covid19. Good evening, im juliet goodrich. California reported more than 9100 new cases over night. Bringing the total number of infections to more than 375,000. The state also saw 120 more deaths, researchers at the Harvard Global Health Institute say california needs to triple the amount of testing thats currently being done to mitigate the coronavirus. Kpix 5s kenny choi takes a closer look at the testing plan in San Francisco which was just added to the states watch. Isa nehealth order mondayir privathealthcare providers to offer sameday testing to anyone who shows symptoms of covid19 or who has been in close contact with an infected person. Health Officials Say this will help free up the citys testing sites. This is one of San Franciscos public testing sites. My wife has not had a problem being tested. Adams wife signed up and got an appointment within a week. Others told us they signed up for tests and got appointments the same day by hitting the refresh button multiple times on the web page but city Officials Say theres an issue. As demand grows, access to appointments is getting harder and test results are taking long ur. 2600 tests are being conducted per day, and 60 on average at public testing sites. Thats one of the reasons for the pending health order on monday. This will help and free up the capacity of San Franciscos public testing programs. With the goal of allowing residents who are uninsured or are members of impactedmms toge more timely manner. Cooperstein will be infected. He accompanied his wife for her second test. Since shes an essential worker in close contact with children. We have very specific times that we go at my job. So theres not a line really. But to me, it looked good the way they did it. And the truth is we need to continue to expand testing particularly in the mission and latin x community. We are continuing to build that capacity. The city has seen a surge in hospitalizations and cases in the past couple weeks. It took 38 days to go from 2,000 cases to 3,000. And just 13 days to go from ses San Mateo County is reporting a surge in cases, right now its the only bay area county not on the states watch list. But Business Owners can hear the clock ticking. The county is reporting 62 new cases. Bringing its total to more than 4400. Supervisor, dave, believes the looming second shut down may happen by monday or tuesday. He says the resulting blow to the economy is something we will be dealing with longterm. Its that economic piece that really presents us with some extraordinary challenges moving forward. I really hope theres a way that we can allow businesses to still operate in a safe, healthy environment. I feel like it should be practical. Indoor malls and places of worship would likely be facing closure. Of course theres no way of knowing how long a second shut down might last. And for a ty county list of what is open and what is closed, visit our website, kpix. Com. A daily city duplex is being treated as a crime scene tonight after a fire swept through a building with a father and son inside. The fire broke out after 8 00 this morning at this property near jefferson high school. Firefighters pulled d filled smoke. The fire is in critical condition. Its not clear what the condition of the nineyearold boy is. But the neighbors are stunned. Its super sad. Because ive seen those kids before. Man. I didnt even know about that. Thats horrible. Firefighters think the blaze began in the kitchen. But they say that injuries were preventable. They did not find any working smoke detectors. The landlord says the tenants might have removed them. Its unclear if anyone will face negligence charges. Today emergency crews responded to the Deer Valley High School pool to climover t balance and was impaled by a spike on the fence. A responding emergency crew says the boy was elevated about 10 feet off the ground. The boy was taken to the hospital after crews managed to get him to safety. So far his condition is unknown. Tonight, house speak ur nancy pelosi is calling on the fbi to take over the investigation into a Deadly Police shooting in vallejo. The attorney is demanding to know exactly what happened to a critical piece of evidence in the case. The 22yearold was shot and killed last month as Police Responded to a looting walgreens. The officer who shot him said he thought he had a gun. It was a hammer. The bullet damaged windshield from the officers patrol car had been destroyed and replaced. We had real reservations about vallejo pd policing itself. And we have concerns about the local District Attorneys Office being able to give a fair and objective investigation. In a statement, pelosi called the alleged destruction of evidence deeply disturbing. Two vallejo employees are on administrative leave. And the department of justice is stepping in to investigate if they committed a crime. The bay area remembering the life and legacy of georgia congressman john lewis. He died yesterday. Lewis decades long tenure in congress followed years of organizing civil rights protests in the south where he marched alongside Martin Luther king jr. When he laid his body on the line for us. It reminds us that its really that important. So yeah. You got to be willing to do that. Im not sure if this generation is ready to do that. But we might need to. John lewis was in his 20s when he led the march in selma, alabama, that became known as bloody sunday. His close friend and colleague, barbara lee of oakland says his leg she pave the way for todays younger generation. These were children who led the fight led by john lewis at a very young age for voting rights, for civil and human rights, and so he expects these young people to continue this nator mala thphotngworl d the baton of justice until the very end. Its now on us to pick it up and march on. And San Francisco mayor london briede tweeted he put his whole life into fighting the unjustices that have long plagued this country. He never stopped demonstrating strength, perseverance, and dignity, to many of us stand on his shoulders and we grieve for the loss of a true hero. Store teaching your children about social justice, how a bay area mothers new book is helping start conversations at home. A lot of parents are looking for tools and Building Blocks to think about how to talk to their children about doing something. About caring. About giving a a new petition for trader joes to change what some are calling racist product packaging. And a Royal Wedding amidst a global pandemic. More on the low key nuptials for Queen Elizabeths granddaughter, princess beatrice. Degrees today. Warmed up 12 ill spotlight where that was and what it means for tomorrows temperatures, and did you notice the haze in the sky today . Ill tell you where thats coming from. And what it means for air quality, coming up. Shes a bay area mom, a social justice entrepreneur, and the niece of senator Kamala Harris. Shes hoping her new book teaches important lessons of unity and resilience and the power of strong black girls and women. Kpix 5 reporter, betty yu and here with her story. Mina harris never thought shed release her book in the middle of a pandemic and social unrest but its message has proven timely and universal. She hopes it empowers people to bring about positive change in their community. She did not grow up reading stories about girls of color. And as a mom two,she struggled to find such books to read to her daughters. Kamala and mayas big idea changes that. The central message is that no one can do everything, but everyone can do something. And its a really important lesson around community organizing, the power of community, importantly, the power of two little black girl whose are the central character and who are under represented on bookshelves. Based on the tale of how two sisters, her aunt kamala, and her mom maya, persevere in the face of disappointment. A lot of parents are looking for tools and Building Blocks to think about how to talk to their children about doing something. About caring. About giving a her advice to parents struggling to explain Racial Injustice to their children in this moment is to be honest using aaron use age appropriate language. She grew up surrounded by strong intelligent woman. I grew up in a household where i was talked to like an ult. I was an only child a super only child growing up. That was really important. Knowing what was going on in the world. Talking about what happened in the news that day at the dinner table. The oakland native, lawyer, and ceo of Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign recently produced a black lives matter sweatshirt. More than 1,000 sold in the first 24 hours. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit organization, black futures lab. The popular phenomenally black tshirts as seen on multiple celebrities also share similar messages of support. And as the country looks to who democratic president ial candidate joe biden will choose as his running mate by early august, senator Kamala Harris is under serious consideration. I think shes absolutely someone that we need right now that our country needs right now. I believe that when she ran for president as well. Kamala maidea ishitting thr childrensk u. S. Of color. Juliet . All right, betty, thank you, trader joes targeted by activists. They started a petition to get the grocer to rename a number of products on the shelf. What they call culturally insensitive names. Names like trader mings or trader jose that refer to italian, chinese, or mexican products, 1200 people signed the petition. Trader joes made a decision to phase out those labels years ago. They say ever since theyve been in the process of updating roller labels. The company says theyll continue to do so until they complete this important work. And taco bell announced that it will also scale back its menu. And this move is meant to streamline operations with fewer employees working. A dozen items are on the cut list. Including the sevenlayer burrito. Nacho supreme and fiesta potatoes. Taco bell says it will add a few items including a one dollar beef burrito. The new menu goes into effect august 13th. All right. Youll have your taco bell update. Get me to the church on time. Or at least get beatrice and edwardo there for their Royal Wedding. The family released pictures of the private wedding in windsor. She married property tycoon, edwardo in a small ceremony. Photos show the beaming couple, the princess in a vintage dress actually, it was loaned to her by none other than her grandmother, queen elizabeth. Queen elizabeth wore the same tiara when she married prince phillip. They planned to widespread wed in may but it was canceled because of the pandemic. Many events canceled because of the pandemic. But the Orange County fair still on. Well, online that is. The fair went virtual this year. The website gives fair goers a tour of centennial farms. How to videos on crafts and access to a live pig cam. The organizers said making the shift to an online fire was a tough but necessary decision. We were heart broken that the fair had to be canceled. Obviously it was the right thing to do given the situation. And the contests are still on as well. You can look through thousands of entries for arts and crafts competitions and vote on your favorite. And we voted on our favorite. And here he is. Back with the forecast. Even if youre not one of the part of the bay area that warmed up 12 degrees today, some didnt. You certainly noticed bluer sky today. Look at the scene north out toward the golden gate bridge. The marine layer got squashed. Look how thin it is. For the last several days, its been a lot thicker. Covering much more of the bay. But the High Pressure intensified today. And it pushed down on the atmosphere and it squeezed it. And it didnt allow it to go as far inland. Thats why concord was 12 degrees warmer today. If you were in the immediate bay, you didnt notice a change. But if you looked east, you saw the haze, heres the view from atop of sales force. Looking across the bay bridge. I want you to notice all the smoke from a wildfire burning in central california. Fresno county for the last four days. As the sun went down, you really saw it. The good news is most of that is staying elevated and were not breathing it in. But let me show you where the fire is burning. We take a look at the satellite imagery before sunset. Can you see the plume of smoke right down here, the mineral fire, its at 25,000acres now. They have it 35 contained. Itll be putting smoke in the air tomorrow. Just as we got toward sunset. You can see a flare up there. Just because the waothe later tnd is ng overthe fire. T the its bringing it our way. If we advance this into tomorrow afternoon, its still doing that. By monday, the winds will shift. And well start to push some of that smoke out of here. If that fire is still going tomorrow, youll notice it again, theres going to be a not so pretty look to the sky to the east. Air quality is okay for now. But well keep a close eye on that. Thats a live look looking back at the city. 66 in concord. Oakland 62. 61. And that view in San Francisco, morning lows tomorrow come back down in the mid to upper 50s. Relatively mild. And daytime highs tomorrow are going to come in pretty much right where they were today. That means san jose, you dont notice much of a difference at 86. When we hit 80 in palo alto, its similar to today. Heres where we noticed the big jump today, concord made it to 92. Tomorrow youll be at 89. Not much difference here. 90 in livermore. We did the beg warm up today. The numbers arent hot. Close to average. But so cool yesterday that you really felt the change today. Tomorrow, theres no change. We stay right where we were today. Oakland, 72, san rafael, 80, ukiah will go back to up 87 for the daytime high. Were cooler next week, the marine layer deepens back up. It will surge farther inland. Much like last week. And well cool the daytime highs inland back in the mid 80s. Remember what last week was like with the clouds and the nice temperatures, well be right back there again after this weekend. Vern, over to you. I get to do another twofor saturday night. What a gift for me. Not just one sports segment, two. The as made a call. Its not oh canada. Its no canada. Look from the new york metropolitan area, moving baseball pitchers, highlights coming. Baseball up top. We got to wait until monday for a giants and as scrimmage. But new york waits for no one. Yankees in town. No fans. Players and coaches in masks around the dugout. Pretty strange. My first highlight voice over of 2020. Players socially distanced. My first home run call, bam, 4th inning. Mask on and all. Credit him with a tworun blast. The yankees won the game, final of 93. Get this, the canadian government has denied the blue jays request to play its home games in toronto season trel by s nada border due viru the blue could games at their spring Training Facility in florida or the triple a park in buffalo, new york. As pitcher, frankie is behind that mask and today the club announced hell start Opening Night next friday against the angels at the coliseum. Earned run average below three, before he was suspended 80 games for testing positive for a banned substance. Golf, we call this an extreme pull out blimp shot. Above the pga memorial. How about a fresca . Yeah thats a nice put. Followed up a 76 friday with a 1 under 71 today. But hes 14 shots behind the leader here. Credit four straight birdies in a row. Came from four shots down and leads by four going into the final round. And like that, were not done. Segment one is over, but what about the rest of twofor saturday night. Youre an elite athlete. Youre at the top of your game. 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